Subject: Re: bug#8188: 24.0.50; incorrect column width in *Completions* buffer
From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
To: Florian Beck <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:02:50 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> emacs -q
 > (split-window-horizontally 30)
 > M-x o

C-x o presumably.

 > C-h f [TAB]
 >
 > Result: The second column is obscured, only the first is visible.
 >
 > [SPC] [DEL] [TAB]
 >
 > Now the columns are calculated correctly.
 >
 > The reasons is that `window' in `completion--insert-strings' is set to nil unless a *Completions* buffer is already displayed. (minibuffer.el, line 951).

The *Completions* buffer is now by default displayed in a window on the
bottom of a frame so this bug has been fixed.

Thanks for the report, martin